Where Were You In 1976?

Me

[bjcoop]

It was Carter Vs. Ford, so where were you during the course of that election and when Carter claimed his victory(unfortunately). It was a pretty close race.

[Junior]

I was 11. Dungeons & Dragons was far more important than some silly election.

[Edit35]

getting ready for the big, big Bicentennial celebration that ever happened.

and partying a lot.

[MJY1288]

"I was an adult running a business in Australia wondering how a man who looked as if he was retarded could have been chosen by the American people to be their President, that's where I was. (And after all these years, I still don't understand it!)"

ROFLMAO, 4 years later we found out his looks weren't the only thing retarded about Jimma Catta

[Radix]

You did what?

I grew up in Boston, and I turned 18.

A few days later after that I voted.

A bit of time after that I found myself on the road to Damascus, and the entire world changed while I was stoic and stayed the same.

I will never ever vote for a Democrat again. Even Zell Miller needs to rebuke that political party more strongly. He done good a few weeks ago, but he should renounce the Democrat Party completely.

[newzhawk]

I voted in my first election after turning 21 - one of the only ones voting for Ford -4 years later -most of those same people voted for Reagan.

[Sparky760]

I was probably smoking a joint, but I don't remember.

[derllak]

I had just arrived in England. Spent the next two years stationed at an obscure USAF communications site near Ipswich, waiting for the Russians to nuke us. Of course, they didn't, but having Jimmy as CIC was almost as bad.

[Samwise]

You are forgiven. Carter gave us eight years of Reagan. God works in mysterious ways. :^)

[uncleshag]

Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron One (HS-1), based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, FL.

[ladyinred]

Thank God there is another adult on this thread! I was starting to feel really old with all of these, " I was potty training" posts here ! :-)

[Esther Ruth]

October 1976, turned 16 years old, saw Elvis Presley that year in Chicago!!

[Republican Wildcat]

I had yet to be conceived.

[GeronL]

I got sucked into the zero based budget plan by Carter, and the fact he served on nuclear submarines (which he never did)

He didn't? =o)

[JohnBovenmyer]

I turned 18 just in time to cast my first vote. I voted for Reagan in the Iowa caucuses!

[Froggie]

I was on Active Duty serving in my first assignment at the Philadelphia Naval Regional Medical Center.....Ah, yes, those were the days, but I digress....I remember hoping Ford would beat Carter, but had no idea that Jimmah Cottah would be the disaster he was econominally (gas lines, rationing, home interest rate greater than 18% for my first house - sweaters instead of heat....oh the pain remembering his administration causes) and the foreign policy disasters....but then four years of Ford and we may not have had 8 of Regan so I guess it worked out !!!

[El Gato]

In a little town in eastern Nebraska, going to Grad school in Lincoln. I remember staying up a good chunk of the night, only to end up rather PO'd. I'd left active duty less than a year before, and was an active, drilling reservist. I'd say my take then on Mr. Peanut was just about right.

Don't think I'll stay up all night this time, although you never know, but I will follow the lawyer's machinations from my new slot as an Army contractor on an Army post.

[Mjaye]

My father was a newspaper editor, and he had an old friend and former colleague who had moved to D.C. and was a great inside source of political goings on. We still have her newsletters, and in one she spoke of a "peanut farmer" who was going to run for President, which nobody could fathom. As I recall, the idea that he could win an election was thought to be ridiculous.

The Carter years provided lots of entertainment to offset having to wait in line for hours for gas, seeing the lights turned down in Vegas, etc. Who can forget Billy Beer, the Killer Bunny, the Playboy interview, Ms. Lillian, Carter's Mr. Rogers fireside chats, etc. I then thought he was somewhat harmless and well meaning, but I came to realize how dangerous he was (and remains).

[SquirrelKing]

Trying to figure out where my new baby brother came from.

Conversations with my Pappy would reveal we had mysteriously elected the "Wrong Carter". Go fig.

[Crispy]

"It was Carter Vs. Ford, so where were you during the course of that election and when Carter claimed his victory(unfortunately). It was a pretty close race."

Probably standing against the wall with my nose in the circle for throwing rocks or something. (I was 5 =)

[redangus]

Just graduated from college (Nov 75), looking for a job, not an easy task in the mid 70's. I had been married for 4 years and voted for Ford. Not because I was a big Ford fan, but I really was uncomfortable with Carter. As it turned out my gut was right.